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May all find the teacher within to guide oneself towards unconditional love and peace

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Teaching yoga?

Teaching
yoga really is not just about leading a group of people doing some
yogic cleansing practice, breathing exercises, concentration exercises,
chantings, meditation practice, yoga exercises and yoga poses, and teach
about the essence of the teachings of yoga. But all these actions are
being performed without the ego, identification, attachment, personal
likes and dislikes, and with great compassion coming from realization of unconditional love from within.

As there are many people interested in learning and practicing yoga
from all over the world, but not many are interested in letting go of
the ego and worldly attachment. Many people who are interested in
joining yoga classes are only interested in attaining some sort of
pleasurable sensations and good feelings to satisfy the craving and
aversion of the ego.

There’s nothing wrong with people only interested in
performing the yoga (asana) practice to attain physical good health and fitness, and
good feelings, to enjoy a better quality of life. But there will be
strong resistance coming from the ego towards the unpleasant experience of the purification and the
process of depriving the ego when come to serious yoga and meditation
practice.

Even some people who came with great expectation hoping that yoga
and meditation will "get rid of" or "solve" all their personal "problems", they are reluctant/unwilling to let go of the ego, to go beyond the body and the mind,
to remove the root cause of all "problems". This resistance is coming
from the ego. They expect just by doing the yoga (asana) practice an
hour a day for a few times a week, can make all their "problems" disappear.
But after many years attending daily yoga (asana) classes regularly, they
are still troubled by "world problems", "life problems", "financial problems", "relationship problems", "health problems", "unhappiness", "disappointment", "dissatisfaction", "fear", "worry", "anger", "hatred", "pride", "arrogance", "doubts", and etc…

By allowing everyone to take their
time to work on eliminating the ego, through their own freewill and self-discipline, without
judgment, comparison and expectation, but at the same time,
the yoga teachers have to propagate the essential teachings of yoga, without
swaying away from the fundamental teachings of yoga (the annihilation of the egoism and ignorance), is also allowing the yoga
teachers themselves to realize unconditional love, compassion and wisdom.

There’s no attachment towards success and failure, praise and criticism
in the action of "teaching yoga". There’s no looking forward for some
sort of satisfaction, achievement, good feelings, acknowledgment, praise
and compliments, self-confidence, self-image, and so on, where all these are
actually empowering the egoism, instead of eliminating the egoism.